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Salvaging the ecosystem after salvage logging

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avatar Salvaging the ecosystem after salvage logging
January 11, 2015 08:51PM
After a forest fire, logging companies often follow to do what is called salvage logging--salvaging the timber that has not been completely destroyed by the fire. The economic benefit is clear. But the ecological effects are unknown, experts say.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150109164435.htm
avatar Re: Salvaging the ecosystem after salvage logging
January 12, 2015 08:13AM
Now they need to do a study on how the removing of the burnt trees, where most of the forest's nutrients are, effects the regrowth of the forest.
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